The niggard is a thief; he steals from himself in not allowing himself what is needful. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Commandments] Reference
Nowise niggard of gifts to the folk of the Geats, 1930. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Beowulf Sometime King of the Folk of the Weder Geats] Reference
She was a niggard in things which did not concern herself. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawk of Egypt] Reference
Nature had shared her secrets with him in no niggard fashion. From Wordnik.com. [The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys] Reference
"He's growing from bad to worse; he is a stingy old niggard.". From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Shame the niggard who refuses to share his good fortune or wealth. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » DOJ Boosts the Cause of SSM:] Reference
You must not hold me a niggard when I would fain give you so fair a boon. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
We cannot be niggard with Kahekili and cut his allotment of sacrifice in half. '. From Wordnik.com. [THE BONES OF KAHEKILI] Reference
Sleep, like other earthly blessings, is niggard of its favours when most courted. From Wordnik.com. [The Abbot] Reference
But that niggard Nature had scanted him in such respect he might have tilted his chin. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
Mr. Clark has been no niggard with the wealth that has accrued to him from his business. From Wordnik.com. [Cleveland Past and Present Its Representative Men] Reference
What is my single happiness, if I suffer it, niggard-like, to extend no farther than to myself? —. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela] Reference
Riches are not comely for a covetous man and a niggard, and what should an envious man do with gold?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
And then, too, in the case of woman, it is only reason of a sort — very niggard in its dimensions. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in Pessimism] Reference
His liberality in the matter of heroines compensates me not at all for his niggard accounts of the war. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, October 21, 1914] Reference
It is well, bold Robin! — but when you come to see me in merry London, I trust to be a less niggard host. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
‘No niggard are you, Éomer,’ said Aragorn, ‘to give thus to Gondor the fairest thing in your realm!’. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
And he would make a good husband; he was no niggard by nature and he would deny his wife nothing within reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Road Leads On] Reference
John Dale was seventy-five years or more, but worked his niggard hillside all the day, and seldom came to town. From Wordnik.com. [The Angel of Lonesome Hill A Story of a President] Reference
Then facing Mrs. Hsüeh, "I'm not a niggard, fond of winning money," she went on to say, "but it was my good luck!". From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Quoth Zau al-Makan, “I desire to even thee in fray and I will not be niggard of myself before thee in the melay.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
What avails it, old man, that you yourself move, sleep, and wake, eat thy niggard meal, and repose on thy hard pallet? —. From Wordnik.com. [The Monastery] Reference
But I think, from what I have seen of him last night, that he is not such a niggard and misanthrope as I was led to believe. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
The Hammett Twins were not niggard souls by any manner of means; but they kept warning the girls and boys all the afternoon to. From Wordnik.com. [Janice Day at Poketown] Reference
He is a niggard all the week, except only market-day, where, if his corn sell well, he thinks he may be drunk with a good conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
A weary journey beyond the last scrub timber and straggling copses, into the heart of the Barrens where the niggard North is supposed to deny the. From Wordnik.com. [IN THE FOREST OF THE NORTH] Reference
Their food supplies were nearly exhausted, hunters could bring in only a niggard ration, and the flat pasturelands were still a couple of days off. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
Those few good parts he has, he is no niggard in displaying, and is like some needy flaunting goldsmith, nothing in the inner room, but all on the cupboard. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
The thatch of hair, dust-coloured, straight and sparse, advertised the niggard soil, as did the nose, thin, delicately modelled, and just hinting the suggestion of a beak. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii:The House of Pride] Reference
Nor shall that be a niggard company if there follow him those five bond-women and eight bondmen, whom my father gave me, and those burn there withal who were slain with Sigurd. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Volsungs] Reference
Thanks to some, that might niggard debt consolidation. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Finance] Reference
Of his life-blood, he told them bitterly, he was no niggard, and it was at their disposal. From Wordnik.com. [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference
Barely half a dozen words, before the sitting to that niggard restoration, had informed Carinthia of the step taken by her brother. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
He was ushered into a London house's library, looking over a niggard enclosure of gravel and dull grass, against a wall where ivy dribbled. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference
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